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attended to his business openly. Under the laws of Nations the state of Maine might require evidence of the guilt of her citizen before she would surrender him, but could not demand other proof that he had fled from justice, than that he had committed the offence in a foreign state and returned to his own Country. Now in what manner had the adoption of the Federal Constitution affected the return of the states to each other in this particular. The Consititution prohibits them from entering into a treaty and theefore they Cannot stipulate in that way for the surrender of fugitives from justice. A state Cannot engage in War nor grant letters of marque or reprisal, and therefore if a citizen of one State enters the territories of another State and there Commit an offence against its laws, and return to and his own state, and reparation is refused, the aggrieved State cannot resort to the mode of redress usually adopted by independent sovereignties. But for all the cases the Constitution has provided a remedy in that clause under which the demand is never made, and a Consideration of the surrender of the persons above mentioned by the States, has imposed on the General GOvernments the duty of delivering fugitives from justice and has so altered the laws of the nations in reference to the States themselves as to require the delivery of persons escaping from the justice of one State into another to be delievered up anor demand upon a charge of crime. It does not, as the laws of Nations, require that evidence supporting the charge should accompany the demand,